resent, on account of his
eccentricities and his apparent determination to make us forget the
qualities of the artist in our amusement at the freaks and fancies of
the man."--_P. G. Hamerton, in the "Academy."_

"_A Variation in Flesh Colour and Green._ The damsels--they were not
altogether meritorious. The draughtsmanship displayed in them was
anything but 'searching.'"--_F. Wedmore._

"At about the same time the artist exhibited other sketches (we ask
indulgence for the word) of a like character, notes of impressions of
white dresses, furniture, balconies, and incidental faces and
figures."

_Merrie England._

"The 'evolution principle' has been visibly in operation for a dozen
years or so in the successive Whistlers put before the public during
that time. First of all we remember pictures of ladies pale and
attenuate poring with tender interest over vermilion scarfs. The taint
of realism was on them, but even in them were hints of the pensive
humour that was to fetch mankind in the well-known 'arrangements' at a
later time. A good deal was left to the spectator's imagination even
in them."--_London._

"We note his predilections for dinginess and dirt."

_Weekly Press._

41.--ARRANGEMENT IN BLACK.

LA DAME AU BRODEQUIN JAUNE.

"All these pictures strike us alike.

"They seem like half-materialised ghosts at a spiritualistic _seance_.
I cannot help wondering when they will gain substance and appear more
clearly out of their environing fog, or when they will melt altogether
from my attentive gaze."--_Echo._

"He has placed one of his portraits on an asphalte floor and against a
coal-black background, the whole apparently representing a dressy
woman in an _inferno_ of the worldly."--_Merrie England._

"Mr. Whistler has a capricious rendering of a lady dressed in black,
in a black recess, on a dark green floor. She is turning affectedly
half-round towards the spectator as she buttons the _gant de
suede_ upon her left hand, _&c._ _&c._ Its obvious affectations render
the work displeasing."--_Morning Advertiser._

42.--ARRANGEMENT IN GREY AND BLACK.

THOMAS CARLYLE.

_Lent by the Corporation of Glasgow._

"The purpose of this picture is a form of hero-worship which would
certainly not have received the approbation of Carlyle.

"... This very doubtful masterpiece--unhappy ratepayers of
Glasgow."--_Dundee Advertiser._

"... an